United States v. Dennis Calvin MacKlin

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• rejecting the government’s argument that defendant “induced” a runaway child to remain in New York, since the child “w[as] free to come and go as [he] pleased ... and to leave [the defendant] at any time [he] wished ... [as the child] did when he became so inclined”
• interstate commerce element requires that a victim “be transported in interstate or foreign commerce”
• “The very nature of the crime of kidnapping requires that the kidnapper use some means of force-actual or threatened, physical or mental-in each elemental stage of the crime, so that the victim is taken, held and transported against his or her will.”
• “The very nature of the crime of kidnapping requires that the kidnapper use some means of force-actual or threatened, physical or mental-in each elemental stage of the crime, so that the victim is taken, held and transported against his or her will.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).